Tag Archives: Emacs

One of the most common complaints I see from Les Misérables who are stuck in a corporate environment mandating the use of the horrific Outlook for email is that it’s very difficult or impossible to deal with it from within … Continue reading →

A quick look at a Quick Look for Emacs from Charles Choi. MacOS has the notion of a Quick Look to peek at a file without invoking a heavier weight application such as an editor. It’s more than just dumping … Continue reading →

Over at the Emacs subreddit, Danrobi1 opines that since the advent of use-short-answers, confirm-kill-emacs should be a boolean. His idea is that confirm-kill-emacs should merely specify whether to ask for confirmation or not and let use-short-answers choose the the particular … Continue reading →

James Cherti has another excellent post in his series exploring Emacs optimizations. This one discusses improving Emacs performance on files with long lines. As those of you who have to deal with long lines know, Emacs doesn’t handle them very … Continue reading →

Another great post from James Cherti. This one’s about speeding up Emacs terminal emulators. As Cherti says, Emacs terminals can be slow especially when they get pounded with a lot of output. He offers some suggestions to help. Those changes … Continue reading →

If you’re a macOS user, you probably know about Homebrew, a repository of easy to install apps and libraries. I use it all the time because it’s so much easier than hunting up all the dependencies required for compiling them … Continue reading →